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VOLUME 55—NUMBER. 256
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945 -
Entered as Second-Class’ Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind:- Issued daily ‘except Sunday,
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First Measures, S
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Legislation to cushion the was foremost on the program general assembly convened at
: More than 500 proposed new laws already were in the "making as the gavels signalled the opening of 61 days ‘of law-making that will be controlled by heavy S. 0 P, major,
ties in both houses. . State government reorganigations, more state spending, mew taxes, public health ex_pansions, new institutions, more “markets. for farm products, aid for returning war veterans and measintended to bolster post-war ' Will be considered. I Galety Missing ditional gaiety of former openings was missing as \r-donscious legislators planned to begin introduction of bills immediately after opening ceremonies. : Eight of the bills scheduled to be fntroduced this afternoon will deal with clearing up the legal status of Hoosiers in the armed services, especially those under 21 years of
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e. . Ae net bills in the first grist to be dropped in the hopper would ap- | propriate $200,000 to pay - expenses of the legislature and enable the state to buy surplus war goods. * Symphony Orchestra Plays A 15-minute concert by the In= dianapolis symphony orchestra featured the opening ceremonies which were attended by packed galleries Ib “both houses. Governor-elect Ralph F. Gates, who will take office after inauguration ceremonies - at the state
Monday, urged legislators to 3 prime consideration to those "days which are to come after peace is “declared.” hy on governor-elect spoke before Republican majority legislators at_gaucuses last night. - He said that emergency measures to help win the war came first but cautioned legislators to look ahead to the future. Owe Debt to Fighters “We should always keep in mind that we owe a deep debt of responsibility to those who are away fighting our battles but who expect upon their return to find stable, efficient government and opportunity for all,’ he said. The Republican policy committee that will steer the party's legislative program through the session completed its program last night. The committee recominended: ONE: “An extensive building program for state institutions. TWO: A state commission to handle war veterans rehabilitation. THREE: A pension plan for state employees. FOUR: Reorganization of the state welfare board to provide a threetmember, full-time administrative: board to replace the present five-member policy-making board. “FIVE: Permission for Indiana eities ‘to create sinking funds for post-war planning programs and projects. SIX: An-extensive post-war agri~ gultural program. - SEVEN: Legislation to welarity the status” of nine staté depart“ments which were left operating independently of the governor's office when the 1941 state reorganization
act was declared unconstitutignal.
« EIGHT: Re-enactment of so
“90 or more wartime emergency laws
which are due to expire at the close of this session. NINE: A state bureau of publicity to operate in connection with the Indiana economic council. TEN: Continuation ‘of the advisory defense council without an appropriation, ELEVEN: Adoption of an “administrative, procedure” bill to classify all state government regulations and orders with the attorney gen-
eral empowered to determine the
legality of the orders.
+ TWELVE: Legislation for effective flood control.
THIRTEEN: Expansion of ‘the (Continued on “Page 6—Column 6) |
L BILLS LEAD 50 AT OPENING ~ OF ASSEMBLY
Slated for Xetlon TT Seek to Anticipate Needs of Post-War Era.
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shock of post-war dislocations as the 84th Indiana biennial 10. a. m. today. |
RETAIN BOARDS, BEGS GOVERNOR
Schricker Warns Legislators Against Destruc-
tion of System.
By SHERLEY UHL In his farewell message at the opening session of the ‘legislature today, retiring Governor Henry F. Schricker warned - Republican majority legislators’ against government reorganizations that would destroy the bi-partisan board system. He also.asserted that the Republican leadership's proposed bill to reorganze the state welfare department “would definitely weaken the merit system.” The governor said his admiriistration had “given every possible support” to the strengthening of the merit system in the weltare Spars. ment _personnel,
Present System Lauded
“One of the fundamentally sound provisions of our welfare law is the five-member policy-making beard,” he said. “I would very much regret to see this authority destroyed.” Regarding the bi-partisan board system which Republicans have indicated they may reorganize for G. O. P. control in some instances, Governor Schricker warned that: “One of the strongest safeguards against mismanagement in our state institutions is to be found in our four-member bi-partisan boards. I trust that any effort to change this system will receive your prompt and vigorous . disapproval.” ’
Presents 10 Proposals . .
In his .7000-word message, GoOvernor Schricker, whose term will expire Monday when Governorelect Ralph F. Gates is inaugurated, made - extensive recommeridations for future government: He urged: : ONE: An appropriation of at least $10,000,000 for a ‘building program among state institutions. TWO: Construction of a new state government office building and a new state palice headquarters. THREE: Construction of a new hospital for crippled children, FOUR: Adequate Bhaneing for post-war planning. FIVE: Careful study of the states financing in view of a “sizable shrinkage” in revenues during the post-war period. SIX: Expansion-of-the American Legion national- headquarters on the War Memorial plaza. SEVEN: An increase in maximum unemployment benefits to $20 per week for 20 weeks over the present $18 payments for 18 weeks. EIGHT: A pension system for tate employees, ; NINE: An increase in teachers’ salaries, TEN: Creation of a state department of aviation to guide post-war air travel developments. The -governor indorsed the proposed new state election code compiled recently hy a special codification commission. “It is one of the most compre-
1ERO DROP IN COLD "WAVE IS FORECAST
“Fair and Colder Weather Is = Prospect Here.
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Senator Calls for Screening
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"The heavily
the gavel at 10 a, m.
Republican dominated 84th Indiana general assembly was opened to ay. senate, retiring Lt. Gov, Charles Dawson wielded
New and Old Leaders Preside Over Assembly
In the
Speaker Hobart Creighton, Warsaw, took over ‘the house a few minutes after he had been elected. Opening ceremonies were featured by music of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra,
Indiana Senators and Congressmen To Be Guests at GOP Parley Here
WASHINGTON, Jan. the title of “most Republican state”
ber campaign, Hoosier senators, congressmen and the newly elected G. O. P. state officials will be
guests of the Republican national
| victory dinner in Indianapolis.
It will be held the night before national committee meeting at the Jan. 22.
Plans for the fete were announced today at a press conference of Republican National Chairman - Herbert Brownell Jr. at G. O. P. headquarters here. He also disclosed that he will make known his .at the Indian-
plans for remaining as chairman apolis ndtional committee meeting.
«to remain, Many newspaper correspondents prefent will make the trip to Indianapolis and they were in-
4 — Because Indiana won
Times Special in the Novempresidential candi
will not attend Brownell said.
committee at a
the Republican
Heosier capital Business will
and the drafting for the party.
the committee at “We are going fine showing for tion,” he declared.
He is expected
vited, through Mr. : to be given by Gene Rulliam, editor and publisher of the Indianapolis Star. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, 1944
Only committee members will be present and sessions will be executive.~. « the late Frank Mason as secretary of the committee
Mr. Brownell was evasive about any details and said definite stands would have to await action by
Brownell, to a’ cocktail party
date and titular head of the party, the Indianapolis meeting, Mr.
include election of a successor to
of a national;legislative program
Indianapolis. to Indiana because of the state's the Republicans at the last elec-
Gas Dealer Charges County
“An unsuccessful bidder for the day "charged the commissioners
tracts on fluctuating market prices,” Service Service "Co. 1430 Kentucky ave.,
MISUSE OF MILITARY MANPOWER CHARGED
0f Combat Eligibles.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U. P.).— Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D. W. Va.) charged today that the army
and navy were partially responsible for the present manpower crisis through “flagrant misuse” of men already in uniform, : Kilgore has specialized in manpower studies by thie senate war investigation committee and has long advocated total war mobilization legislation. - He said the armed forces could greatly alleviate the present shortage by careful reassignment of men now in viper than combat duty.
Seeks Legal Force “They ought to take the physically "fit ‘men now in uniform and | put them in combat service,” he] said,” “They could use those not fit for combat in the supply lines to the front and at bases here and abroad: They could also put mili\tary- personnel into service warehouses which ‘now employ approximately 500,000 civilians. Those civilians then could be channeled either into ‘the combat forces orf other essential work.” Kilgpre expressed doubt that a long-term solution to the manpower crisis would be provided by the series of new proposals by mobilization Director James F. Byrnes.
Board. 'Ignored' Lower Bid By- JOE JARVIS “ignored” his lower tank wagon price!
bid in awarding the gasoline contract to a fixed price bidder. ! Criticizing the comniissioners’ explanation,
| Service Co., 534 N. Capitol ave., that the commissioners explain why they
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By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, - Jan. 4.~Propaganda Minister Joseph = Goebbels is preaching a sort of Teutonic ver-’ sion of hara-kiri. It is just possible that one of his first notable converts. was Field Marshal Gen. Gunther von Kluge, former commander of the German armies in the west. " Von Kluge died late in August after Field Marshal Gen. Walter von - Model halt - taken over his command following the Nazi collapse in Normandy. It was said then that he was seized by a heart attack while en
Last week New York reports said ‘that the allies had discovered
" committed suicide. It is an interesting coincidence
route to Hitler's headquarters, documents proving that ‘he had
Hat an Aut 3 3 the erg radia
county's 1945 gasoline business to-
“We cannot award conWalter C. Holmes of the Associated said the commissioners “reasoned illogically” in making their award. “They just ignored my bid and the facts involved.” he stated.
Tire Firm Protests
Mr. Holmes’ complaint follows by week demands made by the Tire
rejected the low bid of their firm and awarded the contract équally between two higher bidders.
Involved in the new charge is the contract let to the Capitol Oil Co. of Camby at fixed prices of -13.6 cents a gallon for regular gasoline and 14.6 for high test fuel. 7 ‘Mr. Holmes asserted his bid was | for 1277 and 13.8, respectively, at tank wagon or market prices which, he admitted, “fluctuate slightly” from month to month. “But,” he pointéd out, “my prices represent discounts of 1.4 cents on regular gas’ and 1.6 on high test under thé OPA ceilings of 14.1 for regular and 15.4 for high test.
Prices Subjéct to Change
“My prices are subject to change, but only in the county’s favor unless the OPA should raise the ceiling on ¢rude oil which the trade does not consider as. likely for some| months to come.” However, William T. Ayres, president of the board of commissioners, said he did not consider the raising of the OPA ceiling an “improbability. ” “We don't know what will happen,” he .declared, referring to the ceiling revision possibility. “There's just so much money in the budget for gasoline and we want to know how much we're going to have to pay now for the entire year. “In the case of the Capito]- Oil
Hoosier Heroes—
PVT. BALL KILLED;
~ 4 LISTED MISSING
Two And One Captured.
An Indianapolis infantryman has died of wounds received on Leyte and three others have lost their lives in combat. In addition, four men are missing over and in Germany, two have been wounded, and another is a German- prisoner,
DEAD
Pvt. Sam Déwitt Ball, 34th st., ‘on, Leyte.
MISSING Lt. Kenneth” B. Smith, 2002 N. Audubon rd., over Germany. Pfc. Paul T. Lewis, 410 W, Raymond st.,, in Germany. S. Sgt. Harvey Duncan, 40 N. Ewing st., over Germany. Second Lt. Jack T. Smith, 514 N,. Campbell ave; over Germany,
®» WOUNDED Pvt. Russell W. Lewis, 226 N. Richland st.,, in New Guinea, Pfc. Lloyd R. Summers, formerly of 24 S. State st., in Europe.
2 PRISONER Second Lt. Harry L. Offutt, 609 N. Jefferson ave, in Germany. (Details, Page 15)
JURY IS DISMISSED IN CHAPLIN TRIAL!
6590 E.
Superior Court Judge Henry Willis today dismissed a jury of seyen women and five men in the Charlie Chaplin case, They were unable to reach a verdict. The jury had deliberated a day and a half on the paternity charges
Chaplin by red-haired Joan Barry, his former drama protege,
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landspiegel program elaborately discussed the flat oath which his soldiers swore before Frederick the Greht. Even when they had been wronged, - Prussian- officers shot themselves rather than challenge their commander. And they died with the cry, “Long live the king,” on their lips... “9 “Sworn principles were placed over personal opinion or even over
more or less - justified despond-.:
ency,” the commentator explained, on the theory .it was more noble
to suffer. personal injustice than
to violate the holy oath, Turning to the current war the commentator ‘observed, “It is sig~ nificant that the general masses of the nation, and paFticularly the soldiers, act similarly out -of healthy instinct without stopping ‘to discuss the puter, Thus it should be t00." Whetdier you ign took. the
(Earlier Details, Page 24)
‘hint—or whether his demise inspired the commentator’s observa- , lions—may never precisely be known, But Goebbels is still pushing his theme exalting death, To the democracies who live dearly, this seems Hike the black- .. est futility but it serves the purpose of national socialism with grim efficiéncy, -In his own weekly Das Reich on Sept. 17, Dr. Goebbels urged the Germans to give everything, ine cluding life, for the cause, In another article inside, theauthor<Ernest Hefter—described how plédsant it is to die, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer= ing's mouthpiece," National Zeitung of gssen, on Nov. 9 printed a letter purportedly written by a Naat corporal to the Jancee of a fallen friend. a PY letter; said that there is troublesome,
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Reported Wounded :
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YANKS BATTER AT JAPS FROMLAND, SEA. AIR
urge” inland on, Mindoro; Formosa. Raid
Is Pressed.
By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Jan. 4.—The Pacific war blazed with new fury today along an 1100-mile front southwest of Japan. "American forces surged inland from two new beachheads on Mindoro. They counted 25 ships wrecked around Luzon, They pressed a carrier-based assault against Formosa and the| Ryukyu islands, 325 miles from Japan,
Report B-29's Join Raid
The Domei news agency said Superfortresses from China had joined the carrier raid on Formosa. Domei also reported that an American task force, escorting a transport convoy, had invaded the Sulu sea, in the Philippines south of Mindoro, "seemingly to effect new landings.” Japanese broadcasts recorded by FCC reported "that single B-29's appeared over the main island of Honshu early today and tonight (Japanese time) and that “several bombs” were dropped on Nagoya. Japanese communiques said, 400 allied planes, most from carriers, renewed the attack on Formosa and Okinawa’ islands, the latter in the Ryukyus, today.
Report Clark Field Raid (Five hundred planes participated in yesterday's attacks on the two gg said, of which 17 were shot down ‘and eight damaged. Damage in the first attack was said by Tokyo to be ‘slight 4 (*Tokyo also reported a raid by 60 American planes-—on Clark field; Manila, yesterday, and sald 40 “enemy” bombers ‘and fighters raided Medan, capital of Sumatra, Thursday morning.) On Japan itself, the big aircraft center of Nagoya still was smouldering from a large-scale Superfortress raid yesterday. One B-29 was lost over the target |,
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STIMSON WARNS OF NEW GERMAN PUNCH
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Americans Take Germans by Surprise
ritish Join the
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Attack, Foe Says.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY
United Press Staff
PARIS, Jan.
Taking the Germans
".4,~The smashed into the north rim of the Ardennes’ salient yesterday in the bitterest weather of the winter.
Correspondent
American 1st army
by surprise, the Yanks
gained three and a half miles on a six-mile front,
it was announced today. The opening blow had
been struck in what was
apparently a grand-scale counter-offensive designed
to crush three Nazi armies in
Today’s delayed disclosure of Lt.: Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ new offensive covered only its initial phase, in which massed armor and infantry surged across the snow-blanketed
Ardennes hills.
A front dispatch said the of Germans 1n the nose of the
push might trap thousands Belgian bulge.
Yank Armies Strike The Yanks struck down from the Grandmenil- Marche segment of the north side of the German salient. They advanced three and a half miles through a blind~
ing snowstorm to Boise de Tave
® on the right wing of the drive.
, five miles north of La Roche,
On the left, they wheeled southward almost three miles
south of Grandmenil.
- {to an east-west line through Odeigne, two and a half miles
First official and front reports of the 1 new offensive did
not make clear its full scope.
The Germans said it encompassed virtually the full
gomery had thrown elements
Roer front to join in the attac
sources.
“hurled strong forces, including many tanks, upon Bas-| togne.” : They fmade* some penetration “of the Bastogne / per-
imeter” before the 101st airborne; division lashed back in sufficient |
Nazis still Have Have Offensive
Power, He Says.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U, P.).—= Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said “today that Field Marshal yon Rundstedt was keeping enough troops in the area of his recent breakthrough “to - make - another {punch possible.” He warned at a news conference that despite the early success of American counter measures,~the ‘Germans still’ have the power to launch new offensives. Though any new attack probably would not be comparable to the Ardennes assault, the Germans are determined if possible to prevent Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower from regaining “lost ground, he said, The German counter - attacks along the Saar are designed to this end, he said.
Did Von Kluge Take Goebbels’ Hara-Kiri Hint?
“One runs across a ‘bullet-rid-dled clearing, heavily loaded with arms and ammuniuon, panting with exertion. “Then one is hit, As he falls, he is stilled and goes mercifully to his death. . . . Everything be-
comes mild and soft and veiled 4
over with the spirit.” Hitler's own daily, the .Voelkischer Béobachter, on Nov. 28, told of a man: who found comfort communicating with his missing soldier son by writing a “letter to eternity.” When his wife grieves that the boy was robbed of the fun. of youth, -the man touchingly con- . soles her with the statement that “the dead,do not miss anything.” Such .mental conditioning hag helped to breed the fanatic resistance which the Germans are sul capable. of eplavin,
o umes | PACIFICAction fares on 110 mite
dispatch said. Germans Checked
Alexander M. Patch’s U. 8, 7th army
German drive which pushed his forces out of Germany and back across the Lauter river. In some sectors the troops of the]
gained. The village of Wildenguth, north-
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The allied °~ counter-offensive against the German Belgian salient started without benefit of air cover.
tions of ice and snow. = It must be fought’ over difficult, broken terrain. These facts suggest three things:
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lift siege, of Budapest is checked 20 miles from capital. Russian forces inside city compress enemy : garrison into. two pockets. -
7th bounced back to seize the initia tive, and-some lost ground was re-
It began under unfavorable condi-|
"EASTERN FRONT—German bid fo
length of the Ardennes salient’s upper edge along a a 50-mile front from Monschau to Marche. Claim British Join Attack The Nazis claimed that Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont-
of his British 2d army into
the concentric offensive against the salient. Units of.the U. S. 9th army had wheeled down from the
k, the Nazis also claimed.
There was no confirmation of these reports from allied
The American gains’ against Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s right wing were offset partially by vicious German attacks in the Bastogne area on the south side of the salient. Supreme headquarters said Lt. Gen. George S. Patton had lost the initiative in the Bastogne region after concentrated German armor-and troops had attacked six times. A 1st army front dispatch said the Germans had
tured. To the north a brisk battle for Philippsbourg was in. progress. The main German pressure in the Hardt mountains was being exerted in the southeastern and southwestern corners of the penetration. The Nazis were seeking there to break
strength. to contain the threat, the [Out onto flatland suitable for tank
warfare, United Press Correspondent John McDermott said the 1st army tanks
Far to the southeast, Lt, Gen. and troops took off in sub-freezing
| weather at 8:30 a. m. yesterday
had checked at most points the (2:30 a. m. Indianapolis time), wale
lowing through the snow and mud of “the roughest tank battlefield in
| Europe, outside Switzerland.” the . Germans
Taken unawares, rocked back. They rallied to roll with the | punch, and were putting up” stiff
west of Reipertswiller, was recap-! (Continued on “Page §—Column 4)
‘Dorf Erpect Quick Victory In the Battle of the Bulge’
undue delay lest the chance to, des | stroy or cripple his three armies slips away,
TWO: The allied armies have res
coveted from the shock of the sure | prise German drive and have re- | grouped in sufficient strength to act regardless of conditions. THREE: No quick smash back to the Siegfried line is expected. . A
ONE: Field Marshal Karl Von|struggle of some duration is suge Rundstedt has presented a military | gested. Allied tactical air superior= | opportunity - which the allied com-|ity will play a major part as soon mand feels must be grasped withoutjas the weather “changes.
On the War Fronts.
(Jan. -& 1945)
WESTERN FR ON T—G nd-scale land from mew puichbibole on allied 'counter-offenst spear-| * Mindoro, count 25 ships wrecked. headed by Ist army, bursts| around Lizon. Yanks press through north flank of German| carrier-based air offensive against salient below Grandmenil, Formosa'and Ryukyy islands. Japs
AIR WAR—R. objectives in western Germany.
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